Word: revolutionism
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It is not a coincidence that Mousavi's backers are on Tehran's rooftops shouting "God is great," evoking the spirit of the 1979 revolution when Iranians spontaneously poured into the streets, the army laid down its weapons and the Shah had no choice but to flee. It's impossible...
Who ever thought that Ayatullah Khomeini would crawl out of the grave to reclaim his revolution?
What kind of organization would this be? Iran currently does not really have national political parties with broad public participation, just political factions and loose associations of like-minded politicians. The history of parties over the past 30 years has not been encouraging. Ayatullah Khomeini founded the Islamic Republican Party...
Habibollah Peyman, a veteran of Iranian attempts at democracy before and after the 1979 revolution, recently described Mousavi's political intentions in an Op-Ed in E'temaad-e Melli, a newspaper associated with Karroubi. Peyman believes that his organization will not be "centralized or like a pyramid." Instead, it...
Peyman compares the Green Movement of Khordad 1388 (June 2009) to the most famous social uprisings in Iran's 20th century history: the 1906 Constitutional Revolution, the 1951-53 period of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh and the 1979 revolution. Of the three, he argues, the Green Movement most resembles the...